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Family Fun At The State Fair—A Day Of Pig Races And Deep Fried Pickles

There aren’t too many places on the planet where you can watch a retired NASCAR announcer provide color commentary on a race between four pot-bellied pigs speeding around a sawdust track, and then 2 hours later gnaw unforgivably on a deep fried pork chop-on-a-stick. It happens daily at the Wisconsin State Fair. The annual 10-day event is famous around these parts for deep-fried everything, food-on-a-stick, a giant slide and world-class agricultural venues. What more could you ask for, right? That was my thought when I decided to brave the crowds (more than 800,000 descend on State Fair Park in Milwaukee … Continue reading →

What About Kids on Business Trips and at Meetings?

My experiences as a home business owner and even as a more “traditional” worker are skewed by the fact that I’ve been a single parent. Out-of-town business trips, conferences, and even meeting take additional care and planning. But, many home business folk often find themselves trying to decide if it is okay to take kids along on business trips and meetings? Once upon a time, things were really cut and dried and it was crystal clear that there was a separation between work and home. That’s not necessarily the case anymore and both necessity and changing attitudes have affected the … Continue reading →

Travel Tidbits: Coke Is It, Save The Fish, and Five-Day Weekends

COKE IS IT Coca-Cola fans rejoice… United Airlines has heard your cries and is giving you what you want. Coke is now “it” onboard all of its flights. The airlines recently announced it has given Pepsi the boot and signed a five-year agreement with the Coca-Cola Company, making the world’s largest beverage company its primary soft-drink supplier. So what does that mean for you? It’s simple really. If you fly United (or spend time in its airport lounges) you will get to choose from eight Coca-Cola drinks — Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Spring Water, Seagrams Ginger Ale, Tonic … Continue reading →

Traveling With Children—Fall Lessons Learned

Most people tend to review what they have accomplished in the course of a month on the last day of the month. Typically, I follow the same rule. However, the last day of October was a rather busy one for me so I held off on the internal review until today. Looking back, my family traveled quite a bit this month. Most of our trips centered on Halloween related activities. I blogged about several of our adventures, but neglected to write about our trip(s) to various pumpkin patches. The prime pumpkin-picking season is over, but the lessons learned can be … Continue reading →

Checking In At A Pod

Have you checked into a Westin Hotel lately? If you have then you may have noticed something a bit different in the lobby—gone are the traditional massive check-in counters. Out with the old and in with the new… check-in pods. What’s a pod? Hotels define them as smaller work areas that take less space and let employees provide more personable service. Basically, they look like circular stands equipped with state-of-the-art-razor-thin computer monitors. With cash transactions becoming almost obsolete hotels have designed these pods—or open desks–because security is no longer the concern it once was. Each pods is individually manned and … Continue reading →

On The Road: Combining Business With The “Pleasure” Of A Two-Year-Old

I don’t know where you reside, but I happen to live in the Midwest portion of the United States. (Born and raised in Hawaii, but now a resident of the Midwest—don’t ask!) I suspect like many places around the country (and perhaps the world) we are fortunate to have access to a slew of Halloween-themed events. This week our family decided to take advantage of a bunch of them. We traveled quite a bit over the last few days—much to the delight of my two-year-old daughter. I had to fulfill a few obligations out of town, but decided to take … Continue reading →